What is "jarringly"

Usage examples of "jarringly".

Then, too, there was the upsetting of the larder, the disappearance of certain staples, and the jarringly comical heap of tin cans pried open in the most unlikely ways and at the most unlikely places.

The unfortunate and benighted Greek was chanting a disconnected and mad song, composed from snatches of hymns and sacred odes, all jarringly woven together.

The crude furniture and military equipment were jarringly out of place, as were the men, yet even his captors’ distrustfulness couldn't stop him from feeling somehow at home.

The lifeboat was down in the trough, smashed jarringly into the side of the Kerry Dancer, despite all the crew could do to fend her off, as opposing seas flung the lifeboat and ship together: the two upper planks of the lifeboat were stove in and broken, but the gunwale of tough American elm still held.

Chimes flowed from the silver skin, jarringly discordant, strangely beautiful.

Under the differing rhythms of their footsteps it bucked out of synchronization and was as like as not to suddenly smack up jarringly at their boots as they put them down, or to drop away under their steps so that they stumbled.

She could identify a symphony of instruments--flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns of all kinds, violins, timpani, snare drums--but there was no melody, no identifiable cohesive structure, merely a sense of structure too subtle to quite hear, waves of sound that were sometimes pleasant and sometimes jarringly discordant, now loud, now soft, ebbing and flowing.

For a moment he lay quite still, then, badly winded and aching though he was, he forced himself to struggle to his feet again -- if Coco's feet reached him while he was still on the floor, Reynolds knew that he would never rise again -- moved to meet the advancing giant and struck out with all that remained of his strength at the sneering face before him, felt his fist strike home jarringly against solid bone and flesh, then coughed in agony as Coco contemptuously ignored the blow and struck him with tremendous force in the middle of the body.

The bad handwriting looks disguised and is jarringly inconsistent with the handwriting of someone with access to pen and ink and fine-quality watermarked stationery.